As someone who typically chafes at most publishing processes (submitting Word documents via crappy Web forms), I found this to be delightful! The process is very web friendly: I got to write in markdown (how I write everything) and links are welcome, as are images. The results are available under the Creative Commons Attribution/No derivatives license and they encourage syndication. My editor (Maggie Villiger) was helpful and responsive.

I highly recommend it, and I share these lessons I learned as a newbie:

I recommend you have a markdown editor you are comfortable with. The online editor is okay, but switching between the source and preview tabs is a little awkward.

They seem to prefer inline to reference links; I find that makes the prose busy for editing purposes, but it’s easy enough to convert between the two with pandoc.

Authors have final control over publishing, it won’t post until you press “Approve” upon request by your editor. That said, it was a little confusing in that I approved working versions that I wanted to save (and get feedback on) but not really approve for publishing.